Make Better Training Materials With Instructional Design Checklists

Like you, the folks at Convergence Training are always trying to learn more and be better at our jobs. We take courses, go to conferences, read books, and prowl the web.

Yadda yadda yadda.

During a recent web prowl, I came across a fascinating and helpful discussion in LinkedIn’s “Instructional Design & E-Learning Professionals’” group (note: that link will probably only work if you’re a LinkedIn member and a member of that group).

Linda (Berberich) Ross, a Senior Principal Learning Architect at Oracle Corporation (and a former coworker of yours truly, by coincidence), began the thread, which was titled “Instructional Design Review Checklist.”

It was a great discussion and many people provided links to helpful instructional design checklists to use for course development.

We’ve summarized those checklists here, including the links so you can check ’em out yourself.

Thanks to all those who participated in the original discussion on LinkedIn, and to my former coworker Linda for starting it all up.

Convergence Training is a training solutions provider with a long history of creating training in many industries.

“I’m looking for a checklist or rubric that can be used to assess the quality of the instructional design of a technical training course. Rather than re-invent the wheel, I wanted to see what was out there. Any pointers?”

That question caught our attention. We’re interested in ID stuff, and we like checklists as you can see here and here. And Linda’s post drew the attention of lots of other people too. If you’ve got time, it’s definitely worth reading the full thread to get everyone’s comments.

But, if you’ve got ants in your pants and you need to dance, if you just want to see some of the checklists that people recommended, we’ve included some of the best below. Feel free to check ‘em out.

We’ve included the names of all the people who contributed to this discussion on LinkedIn at the bottom of this post.

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Jeffrey Dalto is an Instructional Designer and the Senior Learning & Development Specialist at Convergence Training.
Jeff has worked in education/training for more than twenty years and in safety training for more than ten.
You can follow Jeff at LinkedIn as well.